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H. SAMUELSEN. 51' AL, 5 1774- COMBINED COLLECTING AND MONEY CHANGIHGAPYARTUS Filed 9st.

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Patented Dec. 15, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I HJALMAB SAMUELSEN,OF OSLO, AND JAKOB DE BYTTEB KIELLAND, F VINDEREN,-

NEAR OSLO, NORWAY COMBINED OOLLEGTING AND MONEY GHAN-ING APPARATUSApplication filed October 2, 1928, Serial No.

The present invention has for its object a combined money changing andcollectin automaton, which is particularly adapts for use on tramcars,omnibuses, railways and similar means of transport, but which may alsobe adapted for use in other connections, such as for the sale of ticketsand the like.

The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus into which thepayer can drop some coin corresponding to or larger than the amountwhich is to be paid, the apparatus being adapted to automatically uponthe insertion of such a coin convey to a cash box the exact amount whichshould have been 1 paid, whereas the difi'erence between the monetaryvalue of the coin inserted and the said amount is automatically returnedto the payer.

The coin inserted may be collected in a separate cash box or inthe samebox as the amount to be paid (the fare).

I In accordance with the problem to be solved, the characteristicfeature of the present invention lies therein that any coinc0rresponding to a coin chute of the apparatus is made to operatedirectly or indirectly a fare box containing coins or markerscorresponding to the amount to be paid, whereas each of the said coinchutes at the same time so directly or indirectly serves to operate oneP or more coin boxes .in accordance with the amount which is to bereturned to the payer.

The effect of a coin inserted into the apparatus may consist inautomatically starting operating mechanisms by means of which the farebox as well as the return coin boxes are operated, or the eflect mayconsist in releasing locking mechanisms or the like in order to enablethe said coin boxes to be operated As it will be easily understood, theapparatus may be combined with a coin sorting device in order that allcoins may be inserted into one slot, passing from there through a coinsorter of a conventional design, the said coin sorter delivering eachseparate coin to its respective chute.

(la the drawings an embodiment of the in- '50 vention is illustrated inconnection with an 309,;361, and in Norway September 12, 1928.

apparatus of the kind in which the several coin boxes are operated byhand.

Fig. 1 is a vertical section on the line I-I of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is asectional plan on the line IIII of Fig. 1.

The apparatus illustrated on the drawings comprises three difierent coinchutes for coins of dilierent sizes, one of these chutes being shown incross section on Fig. 1.

The coin chute comprises a slot 2 adapted for one particular size ofcoin, and the chute itself is pivotally mounted on the trunnion 3.

spring 4 tends to maintain the pivoted coin chute in the positionillustrated on Fig. 1. The apparatus further comprises a numher of coinboxes in the form of tubular stacks, two of which, 5, 6, are illustratedon Fig. 1. These tubular stacks have their lower ends at a distance overthe bottom plate 7 of the apparatus, corresponding approximately to thethickness of a coin 8.

On the bottom plate of the apparatus there are located slides 9, 10, 11provided with openings which in the normal position of the slides liedirectly below the several tubular coin stacks, so that the lowest coinin each stack fits into an opening in the slide.

Springs 23, one of which is shown on Fig. 1, tend to maintain the slidesin the normal osition.

At the end of the slides which extends to- Wards the pivoted coin chutes1, there are located pivoted hooks 24, the distance between which isslightly shorter than the diameter of the coin for which thecorresponding coin chute is adapted.

When a coin is let down through the chute as indicated in connectionwith coin 12 on Fig. 1, it will therefore be arrested between thepivoted hooks 24, whereas the upper part of the coin still remains inthe lower part of the chute. Consequently the coin in this manner formsa connection link between the pivoted coin chute and the correspondingslide 9, 10 or 11. By pressing against the upper part of the pivotedcoin chute so as to tilt the chute in the direction indicated by thearrow on Fig. 1, the lower part of the chute by means of the coin andthe hooks 24 will pull the slide forwards as indicated by the arrow onFig. 2, thereb also moving the coins filling the opening 0 the saidslide in a forward direction.

As it will be seen, this movement will bring the coin from the rear coinstack to an opening 13, through which it drops into the guide 14 and islet down in a cash box 15. The coin from the front coin stack is droppedthrough the opening 16 on to an incline 17' over which it is passed tothe change pocket 18 which is accessible from the outside.

The coins in coin stack 6 are fare coins, i. e. they are either normalcoins the value of which corresponds to the fare to be paid,

or they are special fare marks or controlv marks adapted for thepurpose.The guide 1 1 through which the fare coins are carried to the cash box15 may if so desired also be connected by means of a special chute 19with a coin slot adapted for fare coins only.

When the slide 9 has been moved forwards a sufficient distance to letthe coins from the coin stacks drop through their respective openings,arms 20 on the pivoted hooks 24 are engaged by stationary abutments 21,whereby the hooks are pivoted so as to let the coin resting between themslip through so as to pass into a coin guide 22, through which it ispassed to a practical collecting box in accordance with the controlsystem used.

In accordance with the embodiment illustrated on the drawings theapparatus is provided with three fare coin stacks 6, the coins fromwhich are all passed through correspondin openings into the guide 14from which t ey are passed to the cash box 15. Each of the said coinstacks 6 is actuated by one of the three slides illustrated so that themovement of any of these slides will have the effect of transmitting afare coin to the cash box 15.

As it will easily be understood, the apparatus might also have beenprovided with one fare coin stack 6 only, said fare coin stack beingthen adapted to be actuated by all the slides of the apparatus.

This may for instance be effected by providing the fare coin stack inquestion with a special slide which is connected in such a manner withthe slides which are operated by means of the coin chutes, that itfollows any of the last mentioned slides in their movement.

Besides actuating the fare coin stack 6, or one of the fare coin stacks6, each of the slides 9, 10, 11 actuates a number of coin stacks 5, thecoins of which are carried to openings 16 from which they are passedalong the incline 17 to the change pocket 18.

In accordance with the embodiment illustrated on the drawings the righthand coin chute (see Fig. 2) is adapted for a half-dollar. After thiscoin has been introduced, the pivoting of the coin chute will pass afare coin, for instance a marker having a nominal value of 15 cents fromthe fare coin stack 6 to the cash box 15, whereas the four coin stacks 5co-operating with the same slide will pass three ten-cent coins and onefive-cent coin to the exchange pocket 18. In the case of the middle coinchute which is adapted for a quarter the effect with regard to the farecoin will be the same, whereas the two other coin stacks serve to returntwo five-cent coins to the payer (or one might use a single coin stackwith ten-cent coins in this instance). In the case of the third coinchute which is adapted for twenty-cent coins, the same fare coin will betransmitted to the cash box, and one five-cent coin to the payer.

'Claim:

In an automatic fare collecting and money changin device having a casingand a plurality 0 coin chutes of different sizes for the insertion ofcoins and having a plurality of fare-representing check-holders forchecks of different sizes; a slide below said fare-representingcheck-holders, a pair of hooks on one end of said slide below one ofsaid coin chutes and adapted to engage an inserted coin, the coin-chutebeing pivoted to move said slide, a receptacle for collecting theinserted coins from said coin-chute, a receptacle for the collection ofchecks from said check-holder, the movement of the pivoted coin-chutefeeding a check into said check collector, a cam on one side of each ofsaid hooks, said cams be ing adapted to engage with said hooks torelease the inserted coin from said hooks for depositing the coin insaid inserted coin receptacle.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures.

HJALMAR SAMUELSEN. JAKOB nn RYTTER KIELLAND.

